The Craft of Acting
With Geoffrey Blake
Online Acting Classes
Geoffrey Blake — Forrest Gump, Contact, The Man in the High Castle — will work with you to bring truth and authenticity to your performances, develop your own creative process, and build the foundation for a lasting career as an actor.
This acting classes are perfect for:
- Actors who are serious about deepening their craft and pursuing more truthful performances
- Performers ready to strengthen their discipline, focus, and work ethic
- Artists who are interest in applying the ideas of Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Larry Moss, and Stella Adler to create their own technique
- Actors seeking personalized feedback in a small, focused group
Apply NowFrom the moment you arrive, you are working among peers. No lectures. No passive note-taking. No watching from the sidelines. Just the work, in real time, alongside nine other actors, with Geoffrey in the room with you.
What we will explore:
- The Truth
Geoffrey helps actors ask the questions that shape a performance across stage and screen: What does your character want? What do they really want? How does your character serve the story - Out of Your Head. Into Your Soul
You never want to act what you think. You want to act what you feel. Acting is doing and being. Through relaxation and emotional excersises, you connect with your body, your instrument and bring truth to the work. - Building an Inner Life
Sense memory and active imagination exercises develop emotional depth and specificity. Autenticity is the key to a life-long career tools for building layered, personal, and truthful performances - Scene Study & Coaching
Scene work and monlogue work is where your talent grows. You take risks. You get real adjustments. You fail, refine, and go again, in real time. You build your actor's tool kit - Professional Perspective: Conversations about career direction, longevity, and next steps as a working actor
Core objectives:
- Strengthen discipline and approach to the craft
- Develop a deeper connection to emotional truth in performance
- Gain practical tools for preparation, imagination, and scene work
- Receive personalized coaching in a focused, small-group setting
- Aquire clarity about one's work and growth as an actor
Apply NowPricing
Introductory 6-Session Package Rate: $500
(Payment plans offered at checkout with Afterpay)
Date and Time
Thursdays
8:00PM EST
Duration: 2 to 3 hours
Location
Online (via Zoom)
Required Items
- A fully memorized monologue or scene from a play, movie, or TV show.
- Access to a computer with a camera and internet connection.
Instructor
Geoffrey Blake
Working Actor. Not a Teacher, Not a Guru.
Emmy-nominated. Two-time SAG Award winner. Forrest Gump. Contact. Apollo 13. Frost/Nixon. Hotel Cocaine. Over 150 credits built alongside the best directors and actors in the industry. Actively working. Actively auditioning. Actively on set.
Most people running acting programs stopped working years ago — or never did. Geoffrey hasn't stopped and doesn't plan to. That changes everything about what he shares and how he shares it. He works alongside fellow actors who are serious about developing their own process. No single method. No cult of one technique. Just the real work, the kind that has sustained his successful career over five decades and can sustain yours.
